Reynolds "Professional" Trumpet Made in 1946

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1946 F. A. Reynolds Trumpet "Professional" Model
If you know about these trumpets, then you know that they really didn't have any model name, they were just THE high-grade trumpet Reynolds made their first years. Today they're usually referred to as the "Professional" model, but that's just our modern desire to arrange and name things.
1946 was also the year Foster A. Reynolds decided to retire after a long career as a master brass manager, finished with ten years as a manufacturer under his own name. Just that he didn't stay retired, when Olds later called he came out of retirement and took charge of their production until his death by a heart attack in the Olds factory. This man really is a link between so many companies, first he worked for York as a young man, then he moved to H. N. White / King until he became their vice president, until he left to start his own business and then he died at Olds, as it's rumored after firing an employee.
Now, there is a strong general resemblence between these trumpets and those made by King at the time, like the Liberty and the Liberty 2B. Not that they share the same specifications, but just their overall appearence. They play similarly too, even though I would say that this Reynolds trumpet is a bit more powerful. Sound is on the bright side, pretty clear and powerful, as said. It's pretty tight-blowing too.
The bad things about this trumpet are that there are plier marks just above the bottom valve caps and that the tuning slide must have been unsoldered and resoldered once. The good things are the rest. Valves are solid nickel-silver and tight, discolored yes, but not worn. It is 80 years old, it has been played, so yes, there are other minor flaws too, so please examine the photos carefully.
It will be shipped out of Sweden in its original case (worn!) with a Reynolds 7A mouthpiece (terrible mouthpiece in my opinion, but it belongs to the horn).
By the way, there's a photo of Miles Davis where he holds one of these Reynolds trumpets in his hands during a recording session. I
do not
claim the he ever recorded using it, just adding the information as a conversation piece, that he obviously at least touched one between the takes. According to Davies himself in his autobiography, they were pretty high in the studio, so who knows what he actually played and it's by the way definitely not one of his best recording sessions (Blue Note April 20th 1953).